Intel Arc series unveiled with the Alchemist dGPU to arrive in Q1 2022

Miganto · 12 Oct 2022 at 17:23

Armageus said:
There's a big difference between saying "Founders edition are in stock" (given that anyone interested will know that there is only one partner selling FE cards), and the name/availability/pricing hinting that has been posted so far.

Afaik (and correct me if I'm wrong), but Intel don't have a specific UK retailer for the Arc cards, and it may be that OcUK may yet stock them.

The competitor rules are quite clear - this forum is paid for by OcUK, anything that deliberately directs business elsewhere for products that OcUK stock isn't permitted.
(Which is why you can provide a link to an airfryer from Amazon and not need to "disguise" the name, but you can't link a Graphics card or other computer related items from them).

If you've got any further issues with this - please post in the forum content discussion section, to avoid derailing this thread further

Awesome, thanks. As I said before, genune confusion/query.

Blackjack Davy · 12 Oct 2022 at 17:26

Miganto said:
I wasn't trying to 'test' anyone, i was under the wrong impression based on the information I gave. Really don't see why you need to have that kind've response to it. Can you explain why it's ok for all the nvidia FE talk and mentions when they're in stock, prices etc that happen on here as i'm genuinely confused then?

You can talk about FE cards and prices you can't talk about where to find them or link to them, just like you can talk about ARC cards and prices but not link to competitors and where to find them on competitors sites, does that help?

Miganto · 12 Oct 2022 at 18:47

Blackjack Davy said:
You can talk about FE cards and prices you can't talk about where to find them or link to them, just like you can talk about ARC cards and prices but not link to competitors and where to find them on competitors sites, does that help?

Yeah thanks, it seems the competitor is the problem rather than the card itself. I was sure i saw people linking nvidia website previously, or telling people to go there right now as they're for sale etc etc, so i thought you could mention cards not being sold here more blatently as it wasn't taking any sales away from here, lesson learnt.

Anyway, @Armageus is there any knowledge on if the A750/770 will be getting sold here out of curiosity?

rexehuk · 12 Oct 2022 at 19:26

Miganto said:
Yeah thanks, it seems the competitor is the problem rather than the card itself. I was sure i saw people linking nvidia website previously, or telling people to go there right now as they're for sale etc etc, so i thought you could mention cards not being sold here more blatently as it wasn't taking any sales away from here, lesson learnt.

Anyway, @Armageus is there any knowledge on if the A750/770 will be getting sold here out of curiosity?

I'll ask straight up.

Have NVIDIA prevented you from selling any ARC GPUs as part of the license agreement for being on their website as a buy link?

I find it a bit odd that OCUK and another major retailer (both with Nvidia buy partnerships) are not stocking Intel cards.

Armageus · 12 Oct 2022 at 20:02

Unfortunately I don't know as I don't work for the Shop

ASMB · 12 Oct 2022 at 20:50

Intel are continuing their marketing campaign (having been totally overshadowed on at least these forums by the launch of the 4090), https://youtu.be/tTdVS_2tLWk

KompuKare · 12 Oct 2022 at 21:26

Bloomberg via Ars are reporting Intel is planning big layoffs:

Report: “Thousands” of Intel layoffs planned as PC demand slows and revenues fall

Sales of consumer and server CPUs are down as pandemic-era demand slows.

arstechnica.com

Ars says "The report says that layoffs will "likely" affect thousands of its 113,700 employees, particularly in its sales and marketing departmetsn, and that they could happen as soon as this month".

Unsure what if anything this has to do with Arc, but maybe the Arc media circus did not go down that well.

random_matt · 12 Oct 2022 at 22:41

KompuKare said:
Bloomberg via Ars are reporting Intel is planning big layoffs:

Report: “Thousands” of Intel layoffs planned as PC demand slows and revenues fall

Sales of consumer and server CPUs are down as pandemic-era demand slows.

arstechnica.com

Ars says "The report says that layoffs will "likely" affect thousands of its 113,700 employees, particularly in its sales and marketing departmetsn, and that they could happen as soon as this month".

Unsure what if anything this has to do with Arc, but maybe the Arc media circus did not go down that well.

The PC industry as a whole is suffering, aside from Nvidia obviously :cry:

oweneades · 12 Oct 2022 at 23:49

Well the current pricing has killed any desire I had to pick up a A750 to mess around with. I don't know why but I was hoping for sub £300 for that model.

Kind of hard to justify even for tinkering when 6600 non XT's can be had for £250ish and the FE 3060Ti is £369.

Martini1991 · 13 Oct 2022 at 08:40

The Intel stuff is DOA, but I still think the scalpers have had a go.
A730 is available at £330 and A770 was £400.
They're garbage at that price, Intel needed to fire sale them.

Yaayuh! · 13 Oct 2022 at 08:48

Martini1991 said:
The Intel stuff is DOA, but I still think the scalpers have had a go.
A730 is available at £330 and A770 was £400.
They're garbage at that price, Intel needed to fire sale them.

Indeed. Whilst they have their driver issues, they can be solved. They could be good cards at the right price, but they are not at the right price, at all.

Quartz · 13 Oct 2022 at 08:56

Yes, those prices need to be near halved.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Oct 2022 at 10:38

random_matt said:
The PC industry as a whole is suffering, aside from Nvidia obviously

Nvidia's Gaming Revenue Plunges, Jensen Announces Price Cuts

A preliminary warning for investors: Expect painful Q2 FY23 results.

www.tomshardware.com

random_matt · 13 Oct 2022 at 10:54

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Nvidia's Gaming Revenue Plunges, Jensen Announces Price Cuts

A preliminary warning for investors: Expect painful Q2 FY23 results.

www.tomshardware.com

Spoke too soon.

Jay85 · 13 Oct 2022 at 10:59

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Nvidia's Gaming Revenue Plunges, Jensen Announces Price Cuts

A preliminary warning for investors: Expect painful Q2 FY23 results.

www.tomshardware.com

random_matt said:
Spoke too soon.

You'd think Nvidia shares would rise with the release of the 4090 and everyone in a hurry to buy one but no, its continuing to fall.

Really says a lot tbh.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Oct 2022 at 14:19

Jay85 said:
You'd think Nvidia shares would rise with the release of the 4090 and everyone in a hurry to buy one but no, its continuing to fall.

Really says a lot tbh.

I am so sad....not!!

rexehuk · 13 Oct 2022 at 20:46

Martini1991 said:
The Intel stuff is DOA, but I still think the scalpers have had a go.
A730 is available at £330 and A770 was £400.
They're garbage at that price, Intel needed to fire sale them.

Same boat here, was a bit sad to see the 770 at £400. It's only a minor mark-up once you factor in 20% VAT, but still.

Hotwired · 13 Oct 2022 at 20:56

Jay85 said:
You'd think Nvidia shares would rise with the release of the 4090 and everyone in a hurry to buy one but no, its continuing to fall.

Really says a lot tbh.

Nah, there's a small number of people wanting and willing to pay for a 4090 and there's a small and slow supply of them.

greeny_fastcar · 15 Oct 2022 at 14:05

Good looking card the A770 - wasn't expecting a card to show up as not heard about stock anywhere managed to snag one for 390 plus a fiver for delivery but delivered yesterday.

Ran a few DX12 games I'm pretty impressed - downloading a few additional ones to test with this afternoon/evening.

oweneades · 15 Oct 2022 at 15:04

oweneades said:
Well the current pricing has killed any desire I had to pick up a A750 to mess around with. I don't know why but I was hoping for sub £300 for that model.

Kind of hard to justify even for tinkering when 6600 non XT's can be had for £250ish and the FE 3060Ti is £369.

Yeah ok so this guy was talking sensibly and then had too much coffee... this happened:

Ahem....

A few more piccies:

Very well presented

Card is really nice looking and feels somewhat premium (Metal surround with Plastic front plate and a bizarrely thin faux "backplate!")

Size wise its a little bigger than a GTX Titan so roughly comparable to a GTX 1080/ 1080Ti. So vastly smaller than the current crop of behemoths!

Looks quite nice in my otherwise all noctua build (be thankful you can't see the 280mm beige goodness on the front!

)

Overall first impressions are positive now I have the card in hand. Small moment of panic where one of my monitors initially displayed the windows login and then switched off again. Couple of seconds later (although felt way longer) and it fired back up as expected. Driver install was painless and the control panel itself is easy to understand if a little sparse in detail. One nice touch is a on screen telemetry overlay very much like AMD's.

Going to try out some different games I have installed now and may start a thread going into this further. May even look at testing games on request if there is any interest or curiosity.

Note build consists of a 12700K / 16GB DDR4 and will of course have the all important Re-bar enabled.

I will finish up by stating that I bought this card specifically as something to mess around with. I would NOT buy it, at least not right now, if I was looking for a card to simply game on. For that I would go with either the cheaper RX6600 or more performant (on average) RX 6700 (or 3060Ti FE if the budgets stretches another £40 or so).

My current plan is to slot in one AMD's new RDNA3 GPU's when they launch (probably the 7800XT if the price is right) so the A750 is not destined to be my main GPU.

Off to game now